Category: Costume Gloves

We’ve made and sold Flash Colored Gloves for over 25 years. The generic name “Flash Gloves” is unknown but is believed to be derived from the colorful gloves popular among cheer groups. This post contains information about colored gloves which are primarily used for events, cheerleaders, parades, promotions, and shows.

History
and evolution of Flash Colored Gloves

Originally, colored gloves could not be found commercially
and were dyed at home using white cotton gloves with dye solutions. Over time,
due to their world-wide popularity, they became commercially available is
select popular colors. They eventually evolved from cotton to being made using
high quality stretch polyester fabric since they were more universally sized
(one size fits all) and not as size critical with cotton versions.

Another advantage of using polyester is that polyester
fibers, being a polymer, can be made in very vibrant colors and will not fade or
lose their color like cotton.

Today, almost 100% of the colored gloves you will find are made from a high quality polyester fiber except for fashion silk and satin colored gloves. Also, Flash Colored gloves are now made in a Men’s universal size in popular colors. It should also be noted that the Flash colored gloves that we offer at Gloves-Online (GO Gloves) are made from a polyester fiber that looks and feels like cotton. It’s nothing like the polyester that was used in clothing in the ‘60’s.

Two
Models

We offer Flash Gloves in 2 models. The most popular are
the solid color models. The other model is our Flash 2 Color model. The two
color models have a white top with a colored palm. The purpose of the two color
model is that the performers look like they are wearing traditional white
gloves while marching which turns into a color as they do a dance routine
showing their palms in unison. This may sound blasé but it is a very nice
feature when you see a performance using the two color models.

Important
features

Besides the vivid colors, there are 2 important
features to consider.

A
soft stretch polyester fabric: Not all polyesters are
stretchy and this is important since one size will fit most. Otherwise, sizing
will become an issue with almost everyone.

Keystone
thumb: This feature may not seem important but it is if you
want the gloves to be comfortable, form fitting, and ergonomically fit the
user. To identify a keystone thumb glove model, these are where the thumb piece
is made separately and set into and sewn into the palm of the glove. Gloves
without a keystone thumb are simply two pieces of fabric laid out and cut to
the shape of a hand and sewn together. Our hands are not designed this way and
therefore, gloves without a keystone thumb are less comfortable. They are also
a sign of a lower quality glove.

If you need some Green Gloves for St. Patrick’s Day it’s still not too late.You will just have to pay a little extra for shipping depending on where you live.

Our Green Flash Gloves are popular this time of year for St. Patrick Day parades and parties.We carry them in both Men’s and Women’s sizes and I provided links below to make it easy for you to find them rather than search our huge selection of gloves.

As an FYI, our special search function (yellow box) on our web site will find them too but then you will see each and every green glove we carry which can be overwhelming.

Yes, every year in October we see a rapid spike in our consumer glove sales. It’s no mystery either. It is all about people looking for that special glove to add the final touch to their Halloween costumes.

Early today, Gloves-Online.com reached the astonishing milestone of One Million page views since January 1– and before our busy season.

Page views are the conservative metric when evaluating web site analytics. For example, if we counted actual hits, the number would be 7 to 10 times higher due to images, etc. You can see this in the chart.

To demonstrate the significance of this number, we have not factored (added) in the customers that migrate to our industrial web site from GO to purchase their industrial and safety gloves. The GO Industrial web site is a completely different web site and we obviously don’t share those metrics since many people follow this Blog – a.k.a industrial espionage – but you can perceive those hits.

For the skeptics out there, I’ve added a web shot image of our actual metric scale which can be enlarged.

I doubt there is another glove company in the world that has reached this milestone in less than 9 months. After all, we were the very first global glove company on the Internet since 1996.

I can’t wait to see how successful the internet shop of our fine fashion glove boutique in St. Thomas, USVI, Olga Gloves, becomes.

From time to time I do like to add an unusual or fun post and this seemed appropriate before the holidays.

Yes, this is a wedding dress made from rubber gloves. I must admit that this is a first – for me anyway – and the artist is either incredibly creative or just loves gloves like me.

Wedding dresses are renowned to be very pricey but if you knew how expensive disposal rubber gloves are these days, this dress would obviously be over the top for most buyers.

However, if anyone out there needs disposable gloves (or any gloves for that matter) for a new outfit or artistic idea, please let me know. We have many glove types and many glove colors. For example – we have flesh colors for that nude look; purple for a fun look; and even black for those formal events. I’m sure we can make you a deal.

And GO Gloves has managed to help with hard-to-find White Gloves for the last 15 years.

As a matter of fact, White Gloves were our first major glove line on our web site back in 1996. (To put that in perspective that was 2 years before Google’s beta version.) Today, our White Glove program remains our largest product line by far and we estimate that we are the largest supplier of white glove in North America.

Besides providing gloves to doormen (see article) around the world, we have many types of white glove styles for any occasion or event. For all age groups, too. Check them out for yourself.

Click on the title of this post to see the “New York Times” article on the Latest Doormen fashion.

That’s not a typo in the headline but it does confirm to me that I am in the right business. I just wish I had my hands in the deals.

The first was Michael Jackson’s flashy glove he wore during his performance at the 1983 Motown 25 (shown). It sold for $420,000 to a buyer in Hong Kong, China. I sure wish I thought of putting rhinestone sequins on a store bought glove.

The other was a NASA award of $250,000 for developing a more flexible space glove for use by astronauts. This is the second year in a row that Peter Homer in Maine won. I made a post here last year about his first space glove achievement.

Several years ago I helped a NASA prime contractor develop glove liners but I think I might be better off hooking up with Mr. Homer. Maybe I’ll even get luckier for the bigger prize and have a new stage performer find me. The bottom line is that I think NASA got a deal looking at the numbers and the gloves.

One of our famous customers was kind enough to send us a picture of his children’s Halloween costumes. It wouldn’t be difficult to realize from the picture that he is also the Demo Guru at the leading toy store in the world.

We give his wife a huge ^5 on creating and making the Toy Soldier outfits and selecting our gloves for a finishing touch. We only hope that the DiAmbrosio’s continue the tradition (whatever the theme) and allow us to send them more gloves next year.

My hunch is that our friends at Disney and Universal Studios will be asking me for Mrs. DiAmbrosio’s phone number.